A compulsion blowout is a submodality pattern for intense behaviors and responses you feel forced to do. Many compulsions are just trivial and don’t interfere with your life and energy, like having to straighten a crooked picture.

I just read this article written by a professor of psychiatry called Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Memory that talks about how PTSD is created from terror preventing the memory from being integrated into ordinary consciousness. Because of this they are left as a kind of re experiencing because of that disconnection.